Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.
The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts